There are common scenarios where this mouse behavior becomes noticeable: Playing games and game elements stop responding smoothly to your mouse movements.Scrolling down a Word document and the scroll bar pauses even when you’re still scrolling.While giving a PowerPoint presentation, your mouse pointer freezes even while you’re moving the mouse.You have to click two or three times on an application button or a web page link because the computer isn’t responding to your clicks....

The Basics of Formatting You can format most SD cards to FAT32, but the process is a little more complicated in Windows than in macOS. The issue is the built-in Windows formatting tool won’t let you format any device using FAT32 if it’s larger than 32GB. You can format larger SD cards on Windows, but only with a third-party tool. The built-in formatting tool on Mac will let you format large SD cards without any third-party apps....

Holiday Sales Can Help…a Tad Apple usually will discount the iPod touch around the holiday season, but you’ll be very lucky to save 15%. A 10%-off sale is more likely, at most. Sure, saving 10% is nice, but if that only adds up to $20 or so, is it worth it to months to get such small savings? Buy the Previous Generation to Save Money You can always save a few dollars (and sometimes a lot more) by buying an older model....

How to Change a Page Name or Username If you are a Page admin and want to change the username that appears in the URL or the page name that appears on the Page, you can do the following: If the name you request is in use on Facebook, you’ll have to choose another name. If you don’t see the option to change the name of your Page, you may not have administrative privileges that allow it....

How the T-Mobile Military Discount Works T-Mobile offers two different flat-fee discount plans for qualifying military members. The Magenta Military plan is $25/line; the Magenta MAX Military plan is $35/line. Those discounted rates are substantially lower than the standard Magenta and Magenta MAX plans from T-Mobile, which are $47 and $57 per line, respectively. Those prices make T-Mobile worth checking out. Both are unlimited plans and include up to four lines plus 5G access for compatible devices; an additional two lines (for a total of six) can receive a 50 percent discount....

How to Import Bookmarks to Firefox Transferring your Bookmarks or Favorites to Firefox is a fairly easy process. It can be completed in a couple of minutes. This tutorial walks you through the process. Backup: Allows you to back up your Firefox Bookmarks as a JSON file. Restore: Allows you to restore your Bookmarks from a previous date and time or from a saved JSON file. Import Bookmarks from HTML: Allows you to import Bookmarks that were saved in HTML format, whether from Firefox or another browser....

Before You Start Before you can install Magisk on your device, you’re going to need a few things. First, you’re going to need to unlock your phone’s bootloader. With some devices, like the unlocked Pixel phones, this is simple. For others, it’s much more complex or even altogether impossible. Once you have your phone’s bootloader unlocked, you can install the TWRP custom recovery. This recovery utility makes it simple to back up your phone and flash custom ROMs as well as other modifications, like Magisk....

How Do I Make My Spotify Playlist Private on My PC? While the idea of Spotify might be to share playlists with friends and family whenever you come across something that might appeal, sometimes you also want to keep things private. Spotify has removed the truly private option on the desktop app, but you can hide the playlist so friends can only see what you’re listening to via Friend Activity. Here’s how to hide a Spotify playlist using the Spotify desktop app....

How to Create a USB Security Key For Windows If you want to secure a Windows 10 computer, you have a lot of options. We’ll show you how to use USB Raptor, because it’s free, but there are also a number of paid apps that do the same thing if you prefer having access to extensive user support in case something ever goes wrong. Some paid apps, like Rohos Logon Key, work on both Windows and Mac....

Become a Paid Instagram Influencer If you have a solid Instagram following, becoming an influencer can be less intimidating than you would assume. The three methods most useful for becoming an influencer are: Get an agent: This is the high-end option for influencer gigs and is mostly used by individuals with either a lot of followers or professional models and artists. The agent helps their influencer client land the typical jobs in their chosen industry and reaches out to companies to inquire about potential social media advertising campaigns on their client’s behalf....

About Muting, Unmuting, and Clubhouse Roles Clubhouse is an audio-social app, so obviously, you’ll be listening to other users speak. But what if you have something valuable to add to the conversation? Your ability to talk in one of the Clubhouse rooms you join depends on your role. So let’s go through these roles briefly to get started. Moderator: When you start a Clubhouse room, you are the Moderator. You are the one speaking and can add, remove, and mute others in the room....

How to Ping an IP Address Ping works the same across all platforms. Open the utility, then type ping. Ping works from a shell prompt, sometimes called a terminal window. In Windows, use either Command Prompt or PowerShell to access ping. Interpreting the Results of Ping A typical ping session finds the requested server then returns statistics: Reply from: By default, Microsoft Windows ping sends a series of four messages to the address....

How to Print Labels From Excel You can print mailing labels from Excel in a matter of minutes using the mail merge feature in Word. With neat columns and rows, sorting abilities, and data entry features, Excel might be the perfect application for entering and storing information like contact lists. Once you have created a detailed list, you can use it with other Microsoft 365 applications for numerous tasks. Prepare the Worksheet and Enter the Data To make mailing labels from Excel, you need to add descriptive column headings so everything prints out correctly....

How to Properly Reinstall a Program in Windows You’ll need to identify the program from the list of apps installed on your computer, and then, in most cases, fully remove it before installing it again. Why You Sometimes Need to Reinstall Software Reinstalling a software program is one of the more basic troubleshooting steps available to any computer user after attempting to automatically repair Windows problems, but it’s often an overlooked step when trying to solve a software problem....

Advanced Settings: Reset Google Chrome Follow these instructions to reset the Chrome browser to the state it was in when you first installed it. What Can Happen If resetting Chrome makes you nervous, it’s with good reason. Here’s what can happen if you decide to reset: Click Reset settings to comtinue. Extensions and themes will become inactive. If your home page button is currently visible on Chrome’s main toolbar, it won’t be after the reset....

iCloud Drive is part of iCloud. Save photos, documents, app data, and much more to your iCloud Drive repository, and then access those files on all your devices, similarly to services like Dropbox. With iCloud and iCloud Drive, it’s easy to save files from your Mac and then access them from your iPhone, iPad, or iCloud.com. Here’s a look at setting up iCloud Drive and saving files from your Mac desktop....

Water Damage and Your iPad There are two different types of water damage when it comes to an iPad, and so there are two different reactions you should have to them. The first issue is simply spilling water on top of the iPad. This includes similar hazards such as the iPad being accidentally sprayed with a water hose. The second type of problem is the iPad being dropped into a large quantity of water such as a bathtub, a pool, a lake, etc....

Enable Do Not Track The first and most basic thing you can do is enable the Firefox built-in Do Not Track protection. Do Not Track is good, but it’s not foolproof. Many sites, including the malicious ones, ignore it. Still, it’s a good thing to have enabled by default. Increase Your Tracking Protection The latest versions of Firefox include built-in tracking protection. The standard protection provided by Firefox is good, but you can take it a step further....

Check Your Notifications If you’ve recently posted something, the easiest way to check if it’s been shared is to check your notifications. Tap the alarm bell in the top right corner of Facebook and see what new notifications are there. If a post has been shared, it’ll tell you the name of the person and how many hours ago they shared it. You may also receive an email informing you of this, depending on if you have email updates set up....

How Do You Rearrange Photos on iPhone Memory? iOS 15 has made the iPhone Photos memory feature much more powerful, so you can rearrange your photos and adjust other things to do with them. Here’s how to rearrange them and select the images that appear in your memories. How Do I Find Memory in Photos? If you want to find memories that Photos has created for you, it’s straightforward to find the different options....